novel - Crime and Punishment

so I just finished "Crime and Punishment" novel book by a famous Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

Crime and Punishment is by truth the best book ever written. it talks about Raskolnikov, a foreign student troubled by money woes who commits a heinous crime. then he gets sick of himself and has all of that guilt in his heart and can't let go of it.

it also analyses not only the mind of an young man but a whole community. i was deeply affected by the 30th chapter where Raskolnikov opens his heart to Sonya...who can give such a description...

the life of a young man struggling with insanity. it is powerful and moving as he takes you into the psyche and behavior of one of the most deranged characters of any fictional tale.

Mrs. Marmeladov's name is Katherina Ivanova. Katherina Ivanova is also the name of one of the heroines in Brothers Karamazov; she was very proud and had an awful temper, though she could be tender when she wanted to be; and she wasn't low-born. Both Katherina Ivanovas share these basic characteristics. when I read Brothers Karamazov, i thought that Katherina was likely to end up going crazy if she didn't get herself and her ungovernable passions under control.

i am just confused, was were both Katherinas the same woman, were they different but Dostoevsky was trying to make a point, or did Dostoevsky just like the name and forgot he already used it? well, considering that one was miserable wife of a penniless vodka fan and the other one rich and respected - I doubt.

i laughed, sad and cried. this is the first book to impact me so deeply.

GO READ IT NOW if you have not already. <3>